Seed recalcitrance: A current assessment

Acta Botanica Sinica

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 638-643

  Song, Song Quan ^a,b   Berjak, Patricia ^b   Pammenter, Norman ^b   Ntuli, Tobias M ^b   Fu, Jia Rui ^c  

^a KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Critical water content; Desiccation sensitivity; Desiccation tolerance; Influence factor and assessment parameter of desiccation tolerance; Intermediate seed; Orthodox seed; Quantitative feature; Recalcitrant seed; Seed recalcitrance

Indexed keywords

BOTANY; DEHYDRATION; DESICCATION; SEED;

EID: 0041854150     PISSN: 05777496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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